Experience

Professor of History and Director of the Miller Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; Professor of History and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at Urbana-Champaign; founding co-editor of the journal Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society (published by Oxford University Press); member, International Advisory Board for the Nordic Centre of Excellence Project on the Nordic Welfare State: Historical Foundations and Future Challenges; Director, Wilson Center's United States Studies

Expertise

History and contemporary analysis of social policy in the United States and in comparative perspective, with a particular emphasis on child care, work-family balance, care work, and old-age security; race and gender issues; immigration; civil society

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